How many wicket keepers? Any decent international squad needs 27, plus a further 945 “on the fringes.” It is also crucial that the one who gets to play most can’t catch.

Lovely flow-chart, BTW. The mathematisation of all aspects of cricket continues apace on this website, totally in the face of the stereotypical image of a cricket fan as some sort of slightly odd geek with low-level personality problems. Oh.

Talking of county cricket journalistic I love some of the euphemisms which regularly do the rounds.

As in “Rob Key looked disappointed to be given LBW” which roughly translates as “caught plumb not moving his feet Rob Key stamped off to the pavilion swinging his bat and mouthing expletives at the umpire”

Bairstow is clearly a superior individual to Kieswietter in every aspect, purely on the grounds that he has carroty hair and doesn’t wear 90’s era zinc lip balm. But I need to see a pie chart regarding his shouting “Nice one ‘bowlers nickname, insert name here'” in comparison to other keepers, before I make a final decision.